When Daniel Vandermeulen took over as the new college president in 2007, I was probably not the only one who wondered what kind of impact the change in leadership might have on my position. I didn’t have to wait long to find out, because a couple of months after he took over I was approached about his request to see a library collection in each of NAC’s Community Learning Centres.

Nunavut Research Institute (NRI) welcomed news that the territory will soon house a major Arctic research station. Cambridge Bay, Pond Inlet and Resolute have been short-listed for the new federal facility.

The Environmental Technology Program (ETP) students began a long-term monitoring project of snow and ice thickness, and other variables of a lake near Iqaluit during April field camp activities of 2005 and 2006. Between 25 March and 1 April 2009, students of the Limnology field camp were back at it again.